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Recently, technique and technology have made an effort to come back to attach importance to the timber construction as a primary structural material. The easy way to be assembled and the goodness of its mechanical properties have helped to increase the development and also the design of the most fashionable architecture. However, the lack of knowledge about it, either because of the little initiative of the universities or the lack of interest of students and professionals, have made a difficult way to be used by the architects at their projects. Nowadays there are many reasons to use it. We want to show how the use of the wood is changing the construction design through a project that our university (CEU-Cardenal Herrera) is developing with the support of several construction companies which are testing different applications of the wood in prefab housing in order to show its advantages and disadvantages.
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In 1845 a strike of carpenters in France left without traditional frameworks to the housing constructors, which accelerated the process of substitution, appearing since this date new constructive solutions.
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Seismic Test NEESWoodCapstone, realized by Colorado State University and Simpson Strong Tie, where reproduced many earthquakes in the biggest tremor platform in the world. The test where made on a residential building of 7 levels of height and dimensions in plan of 12 × 18 m.
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The italian company Sistem Construzioni, rebuilt during 2009 in the area affected by the earthquake in L’Aquila, Italy, a residential building in height solved with structure and closure of wood. Font: http://www.sistemiberica.es/ .
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The CLT panel presents a level 5 times higher of thermal isolation compared to concrete, 10 times better than bricks and 350 times better than steel with a value of 0.13 W/mK.
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Serra, B., Verdejo, P., Serra, J. (2014). SML Sistem: New Ways of Timber Construction. In: Llinares-Millán, C., et al. Construction and Building Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7790-3_22
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